Olga by Bernhard Schlink (paperback)

Olga by Bernhard Schlink (paperback)A #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'Bernhard Schlink speaks straight to the heart' New York Times Olga is an orphan raised by her grandmother in a Prussian village around the turn of the 20th century. Smart and precocious, she fights against the prejudices of the time to find her place in a world that sees her as second best. When she falls in love with Herbert, a local aristocrat obsessed with the era's dreams of power, glory and greatness, her life is

stunningly ambitious novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II

can she survive to become the author of her own story

which uses their real-life stories to begin another—one that crosses centuries and continents

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